I concur. Although I perfectly understand why they were chosen, Go's concurrent synchronization primitives are not a good design choice. The developers of Go wa

I concur. Although I perfectly understand why they were chosen, Go's concurrent synchronization primitives are not a good design choice. The developers of Go wanted to have primitives out of which better abstractions can be built while leaving freedom to the programmer, it makes sense and is consistent with Go's philosophy. In my experience, however, there is more buggy concurrent code out there than code that works correctly, and this could have been avoided by some higher level abstraction like the actor model or Ada's tasking with Rendezvous (where the latter is not so different from channels, to be fair). It's a real problem because of 3rd party libraries. Too many 3rd party libraries produce deadlocks in unusual scenarios, and it can take almost as much time to write the library on your own than to find out whether their use of goroutines is correct. Deadlocks are really everywhere. The same with sync.atomic by the way, the use of these primitives is rarely correct and people keep using them despite the warnings in the docs. I'm not claiming to be smarter, on the contrary, the problem really is that Go's choice of concurrency primitives is only suitable for concurrency experts and most programmers (including myself) aren't.